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Maine's ranked-choice voting will be used in a federal general election for the first time, after previously using it in the primary system.
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Update: Democrats have taken the House of Representatives, while Republicans have retained control of the Senate.
Georgia's Brian Kemp Opens 'Cyber Crimes' Investigation Into State Democrats, 2 Days Before Election
Georgia Secretary of State and Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp opened an investigation into the state's Democratic Party Sunday, alleging a failed attempt to hack the Georgia voter registration system.
Previously: Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday November 07 2018, @12:17AM (6 children)
https://ballotpedia.org/2018_ballot_measures [ballotpedia.org]
https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/journal/3625 [soylentnews.org]
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday November 07 2018, @02:09AM
Voting rights will be restored to most former felons in Florida:
A bunch of states have enacted "Marsy's law", which seems to be identical:
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday November 07 2018, @03:05AM (2 children)
https://www.cnn.com/election/2018/ballot-measures [cnn.com]
Voter ID measures passed in Arkansas and North Carolina.
Michigan's ballot initiative to legalize recreational cannabis is polling well, not called yet. The losers at the Detroit NAACP oppose it [mlive.com].
Alabama likely to pass a constitutional amendment against abortion. Not sure what practical effect it will have, other than possibly sparking a SCOTUS fight.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 07 2018, @03:57PM
Alabama puts pretty much everything in their state constitution. It's extremely long. No other state puts anywhere near as much stuff in their respective consitutions.
This is something that's rather problematic as a constitution is supposed to be relatively constant, only being changed when there's a serious issue. By using the constitution as just another code of laws, you might as well not have it at all as it doesn't provide much protection against abuses of power by the congress.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 08 2018, @01:10AM
The other MI ballot measures were far more interesting than weed IMO.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday November 07 2018, @03:34AM
Alabama approves Ten Commandments amendment:
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(Score: 3, Informative) by digitalaudiorock on Wednesday November 07 2018, @07:41PM
The one that stunned me...that is the very fact that the law allowed this in the first place...is this:
https://ballotpedia.org/Louisiana_Amendment_2,_Unanimous_Jury_Verdict_for_Felony_Trials_Amendment_%282018%29 [ballotpedia.org]
So now they require unanimous jury verdicts for felony convictions which was NOT the case. Unimaginable. On the PBS coverage last night they talked about some details of all this. It originated from the Jim Crow days where the SCOTUS forced them to allow African Americans on juries. They admitted as much that this law was their way of saying in effect that "You can make us put them on the jury but you can't make us listen to them". The result was that many people went to prison for life without parole on a 10/2 jury decision. Worse yet...the juries were often not even polled at all, and sometimes were, but the judge would seal the result...so in many cases nobody even even knew when decisions weren't unanimous.
Awesome that that's changed but scary as shit that it was ever like that.